Thursday, January 25, 2018

It is our last day at Harbin. Our flight is scheduled at night and there isn't much activities to do in Harbin downtown except shopping and food. Unfortunately, I am not keen for shopping. I prefer to spend much time visiting historical attraction sites. As we searched online, we found an interesting museum which is located about an hour drive from Harbin downtown. This museum attraction isn't popular among foreign tourists due to the location since it is only accessible by private car service, taxi/cab and public bus transportation. However, we still want to visit this museum. This museum is known as Unit 731.

Unit 731 was a biological and chemical warfare research and development which was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin. The biological and chemical research unit used human beings for various cruel experiments.

Vivisection were performed on men, women and children after infecting them with various diseases and removing their organs to study the effects or disease on the human body.

Captives were tied to stakes and used as targets to test germ-releasing bombs, chemical weapons and explosive bombs

Conducting experiments by taking captives outside, dipping various appendages into water and allowing their limbs to freeze and many more.

I didn't know anything about the history of Unit 731 before this visit. It is an educational for me to learn and understand the history during my three hours visit. As we read and look at photos or evidences, we feel terrified and sorry for all the prisoners and victims at Unit 731.